i5 4690k OC Voltages

[nathan_99]

I've set all cores to be synced in the bios and set the value as 43 but i haven't touched the voltage and everything seems fine, is this normal?

 

[Multipack]

Yeah, especially if you have adaptive voltage turned on. What is your vcore at x43? Does it fluctuate?

 

[nathan_99]

Yeah, especially if you have adaptive voltage turned on. What is your vcore at x43? Does it fluctuate?

1.223v and it seems be consistent.

 

[Multipack]

Well its a good voltage and a good OC so be happy. You could definitely get it to 4.5 provided temps are ok. Have you stress tested at 4.3?

 

[nathan_99]

I've been running cinebench for about 20 mins now and everything's perfect and temps are peaking in the high 60s (212 evo cooler)

 

[Multipack]

Sounds good. Room for improvement too. Your voltage will be perfectly safe up to 1.3.

 

[nathan_99]

i think i misread the vcore in hwmonitor, it says on the moboard bit that the vcore is 1.7 volts, im confused now, is that the right or wrong bit?

 

[Multipack]

It will fluctuate under load unless fixed manually. Are you sure it isn't changing?

And I am surprised if you have 4.3GHz stable on 1.7v (which is dangerously high) but lower is generally better.

 

[nathan_99]

It will fluctuate under load unless fixed manually. Are you sure it isn't changing?

And I am surprised if you have 4.3GHz stable on 1.7v (which is dangerously high) but lower is generally better.

could you take a look please, im pretty sure the core voltage is the VID so i think im safe, what do you think, its at 4.5 now as well.http://

 

[Multipack]

The VID is the amount your PC is requesting. The vcore is the amount the CPU is provided. You have a bad misbalance and you shouldn't really ever let your vcore go above 1.5v. I'd manually set it before running at 4.5 or you risk damaging hardware.